Spicy! But there is a story here. But it's about power, prestige, and how that's not supposed to go to the nerds who know how to fix the AV equipment, it's supp

Spicy! But there is a story here. But it's about power, prestige, and how that's not supposed to go to the nerds who know how to fix the AV equipment, it's supposed to go to the jock, the politician, the salesman. It's probably very galling to a certain type of person that someone who cares about stupid shit like entropy, or instruction sets, or packet congestion (to pick a suitably random assortment of things) to be paid well, and worse, to be expected to be paid well. Who do they think they are?! (Technically speaking, the reason compensation is good is because we are the human components of the incredible shrinking machine that can squeeze a set of HCI into a state so small you can squirt billions of copies around the world effectively for free. And that is a valuable thing to be able to do, it turns out, for all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons.)